Posted on 11/27/2006 5:35:13 PM PST by Jay777
For eleven years the city of Chicago has supported the Christkindlmarket Chicago, a traditional German American market and festival that lasts 4 weeks long and offers shopping, music, traditional German American food and drink, and entertainment. It's a free family friendly celebration of the Christmas season that hosts over one million people and is home to the Chicago Christmas Tree. It's so popular that a variety of groups and companies are eager to sponsor it every year.
However, this year there seems to be a problem. Since one of the sponsors was The Nativity Story Movie the city of Chicago is pulling its support. I guess they think if they support an event that happens to be sponsored by something with a Christian perspective towards Christmas that they would somehow be violating the sacred “seperatio of church and state”, and that somehow it would equate to Congress establishing a National religion. I don’t know. Whatever the reason it is quite stupid.
(Excerpt) Read more at stoptheaclu.com ...
"While the ACLU opposes nativity scenes displayed on public property, it will represent a guy who jumps into the scene so he can 'f*** the sheep.' "
Dennis Miller
It would be a real shame to shut that fair down. It's good for everybody and the religious aspects are minimal. Who filed the complaint? As in who was the person who felt injured personally?
I sent this to his Lordship mayor Daley or is it Herod?
Since the city of chicago does not see fit to allow visitors to see the advertisement for the film The Nativity - we have decided to cancel our vist there. We will tell all our friends and family about this arrogant display of hatred and censorship. Unbelievable in the land of the free that petty litle bureacrats can stop a film from being shown--about the birth of the Lord.
What are you so afraid of?
name and family
Once again, the minority rules.
It's getting more and more sad.
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If you want on (or off) this Catholic and Pro-Life ping list, let me know!
"Once again, the minority rules."
Political correctness is tyranny of the minority.
"Political correctness is tyranny of the minority."
And they keep getting away with it.
Your post is excellent. Mind if I use it sometime?
Got to appease the ant-american multiculturalist whackos I reckon.
NO ROOM AT THE INN IRONY!
The aclj.org, not to be confused with the aclu, is fighting this:
excerpted from: http://www.aclj.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=2475
ACLJ: City of Chicago Guilty of Religious Discrimination for Shunning "The Nativity Story" at Christmas Festival
November 28, 2006
(Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), specializing in constitutional law, today called on the City of Chicago and festival organizers to reverse a decision and permit “The Nativity Story” movie to be a sponsor of a downtown Christmas festival. City officials pressured festival organizers to remove the movie as a sponsor because it said the movie about the birth of Jesus Christ might be offensive. The ACLJ said it will send a letter to city officials and festival organizers urging them to end their discriminatory practices and to permit the movie to serve as a sponsor for the festival.
“This is one of the most blatant forms of religious discrimination imaginable,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ. “To suggest that a movie about the birth of Jesus Christ should not be included in a Christmas festival is absurd. This transcends political correctness and centers squarely on religious bigotry. The City of Chicago and festival organizers are exhibiting an intolerance that is offensive to Christians who celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The city and festival organizers must respect the First Amendment and put an end to the discriminatory practices. We call on the City of Chicago and festival organizers to reverse the decision and permit ‘The Nativity Story’ to serve as a sponsor of the Christmas festival.”
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